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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action article icon

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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care seeks to help transform end of life care across the country. A research team from The Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice.

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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces article icon

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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

Have you ever considered how the location and spaces in end-of-life care impact on a carer’s experience? Let's look at how attention to detail can make a huge difference.

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Valuing death at home: making preparations article icon

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Valuing death at home: making preparations

Death is part of life and is something we all need to face, not only our own death but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives.

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Valuing death article icon

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Valuing death

How can we prepare for death while ageing? This article explores...

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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities video icon

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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in the UK were at greater risk of death from the virus. Dr Jenny Douglas explores racial inequalities in healthcare over the past 25 years in this article and video.

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Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it? article icon

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Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

The concept of wellbeing is intended to be holistic and cover the entire life course and life events. However, when it comes to dying, wellbeing is usually not the first (or in top ten even) of words that people think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this ...

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Terminal  illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace article icon

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Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

It is well established that work impacts on people’s wellbeing. People often presume and create a separation between their work life and their private life.  However, life events like having a terminal diagnosis, which may be considered private, can impact a person’s work. In this article, we provide several tips for supporting people with a ...

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Not intervening as a form of care video icon

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Not intervening as a form of care

Learning from palliative and end of life care.

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Could you work in end of life care? activity icon

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Could you work in end of life care?

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in end of life care as a health care professional supporting dying patients and their families? Working with people who are dying can be both rewarding and emotionally draining. 

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Death is inevitable: But do you need to plan for it? article icon

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Death is inevitable: But do you need to plan for it?

For many, this question may at first seem like an odd one. It may be something you have never thought about – thinking about what the end of life may be like. For others, dying may not seem like something you can ‘plan for’, preferring to presume it is down to fate. And you might be wondering why question something you might have very little ...

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Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share article icon

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Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is the process of thinking about, documenting and sharing one’s wishes, beliefs, values and preferences for one’s future care. This process is often captured in a document called an advance care plan. The plan and the conversations around it can be used to help align and coordinate care around these preferences. This ...

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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye article icon

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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

This article explores experiences of children and young people’s death anxiety as a result of COVID-19, and the impact of the pandemic and death on staff working in care establishments, and how grief was reported in UK newspapers.  

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